soldiers / a force / an army / weapons / arms / military / warlike / CL: 個｜个

soldier / CL: 個｜个

infantry / foot / infantryman / foot soldier

military service

to serve in the army / to be a soldier

weaponry / weapons / arms

to review troops / military parade

officers and men

munitions factory

large military unit / formation / corps / army

new (army) recruit

the School of the Military, one of the Hundred Schools of Thought 諸子百家｜诸子百家 of the Warring States Period (475-220 BC)

military strategist in ancient China / military commander / soldier

Hyōgo prefecture in the midwest of Japan's main island Honshū 本州

cavalry

commando / special forces soldier

troops appearing suddenly (in a raid or ambush)

celestial soldier / (old) imperial troops / (Tw, jocular) clumsy army recruit / (more generally) bungler / screw-up

rebel soldier

paratrooper

individual soldier / (literary) isolated military unit, cut off from reinforcements

veteran

mercenary / hired gun

military police

figurines of warriors and horses buried with the dead / Terracotta Army (historic site)

to lead troops

sentinel

massive military force

military strength / armed forces / troops

to drill troops / army training

(military) branch of the armed forces

mutiny / (Tw) to be dumped by one's girlfriend while serving in the army

military leadership / military power

artillery soldier / gunner

to levy troops / recruitment

guard / bodyguard

“Art of War”, one of the Seven Military Classics of ancient China 武經七書｜武经七书, written by Sun Tzu 孫子｜孙子

army deserter

Ministry of War (in imperial China)

art of war / military strategy and tactics

to dispatch an army / to send troops

to send troops

to muster troops / (fig.) to gather forces

ordinary soldier

parade guards (usually spaced out along parade routes) / example / model / pacesetter

lit. short-weaponed soldiery fight one another (idiom); fierce hand-to-hand infantry combat / to fight at close quarters

military parade

(bladed) weapons

child soldier

shrimp soldiers and crab generals (in mythology or popular fiction, the army of the Dragon King of the Eastern Sea) / useless troops (idiom)

to recruit soldiers

to train troops

lit. strong soldiers and sturdy horses (idiom) / fig. a well-trained and powerful army

weapons / arms / fighting / war

to engage in wars of aggression at will (idiom) / militaristic / bellicose

there can never be too much deception in war / in war nothing is too deceitful / all's fair in war

to meet on the battlefield (idiom)

lit. frontline troops / leader / trailblazer / pacesetter

military camp / barracks

military engineer

elite troops

to retreat / to withdraw troops / to recall troops / fig. to finish work / to wind up / to call it a day / used with negatives: the task is far from over

enlisted sailor in navy

a scout / spy

to move an army and send a general (idiom); to deploy an army / to send a team on a task

to beat the gong to recall troops (idiom); to order a retreat

to cease fire / armistice / rested troops

soldiers at the city walls (idiom); fig. at a critical juncture

counter soldiers with arms, water with an earth weir (idiom); different situations call for different action / to adopt measures appropriate to the actual situation

manpower resources (for military service) / sources of troops

to hold back one's troops without moving (idiom); to bide one's time

arms / weapons

to dismiss military hierarchy using wine cups / cf Song founding Emperor Song Taizu 宋太祖 holds a banquet in 961 and persuades his senior army commanders to go home to their provinces

to dispatch troops

the military revolt of 960 that led Zhao Kuangyin 趙匡胤｜赵匡胤 to found the Song dynasty

troops in defeat like a landslide (idiom); a beaten army in total collapse

lit. every tree or bush an enemy soldier (idiom); fig. to panic and treat everyone as an enemy / to feel beleaguered

soldiers munity and troops rebel (idiom); turmoil and chaos of war

reinforcement

to reinforce / to increase troop numbers / reinforcements / extra troops

a book on the art of war

to lead military operations with extraordinary skill

man-of-war / naval vessel / warship

delaying tactics / stalling / measures to stave off an attack / stratagem to win a respite

troops

celestial troops and generals (idiom) / fig. superior forces

soldiers / troops

lit. no blood on the men's swords (idiom); fig. an effortless victory

people's militia / militia / militiaman

in a state of war

troops and horses / military forces

Hyōgo prefecture in the midwest of Japan's main island Honshū 本州

the Kempeitai or Japanese Military Police 1881-1945 (Japanese counterpart of the Gestapo during WWII)

peaceful measures before using force (idiom); diplomacy before violence / jaw-jaw is better than war-war

to deploy troops / to mass troops

confusion of war / turmoil of war

lit. rich country, strong army (idiom); slogan of legalist philosophers in pre-Han times / Make the country wealthy and the military powerful, slogan of modernizers in Qing China and Meiji Japan (Japanese pronunciation: Fukoku kyōhei)

loose and disorganized soldiers / stragglers / fig. a loner

to call for reinforcements / to bring in troops

guard / garrison soldier